Unraveling the Puzzle of Enterprise Transformation with Agility and Insight: The what, the why, the how…
by Christopher Holmes

Today’s conversation has progressed from the 'what' – the 'what' is digital transformation, the 'what' is IoT and evidence-based decision making, to be focused today on the 'why' and the 'how'. The promise of going digital is on that many organization have embarked upon, whether they be in the public or private sectors. This session will explore 'why' organizations are embracing emerging digital technologies, organizational change and 'how' to make it a success.
With a focus on smart cities, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ Smart City initiatives are expected to spend well over US$28.3 billion by 2018. Intelligent traffic transit and Fixed usual surveillance are seeing maximum impetus from the government sector for stream lining the traffic and towards more secured cities. This leads into the discussion as to 'why?' Here, the concept of city 'digital twins' will be introduced, with IoT being one of the foundational technology pieces enabling this vision.
Moving into the 'how', several frameworks will be introduced, these being best practices and key organizational change policies in ensuring that projects, processes and supporting resources such as manpower talents, are a success. Data points as to where current emerging digital technologies adoption is pervasively leveraged across global and domestic regions, coupled with the challenges to success will also be shared. Finishing the session, some overarching thoughts on how to make adopting digital technologies such as IoT projects successful will be a key takeaway from this session.

10:35am

5 Scenarios Where A.I Adoption Would Be A Waste Of Time
Mr. Mervyn CheahHead & Vice President of NEC Laboratories Singapore

Synopsis for A.I. and Biometrics for Smart and Safer Cities by Walter Lee

The Internet of Things results in Big Data. Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence feed on this Big Data to power robotics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing 4.0. and smart cities. IOT is the integration of I.T. and O.T. In this Cyber-Physical Fusion World, an Integrated Digital Identity is critical. Biometrics is the key to the Integrated Digital Identity.

A lot of people seem dejected or disappointed to hear that Facial Recognition and other biometrics cannot attain a 100% accuracy. This presentation explains in-depth why 100% is the oretically impossible and how we can get as close as possible to 100%. This presentation will share about NEC technologies being the highest in accuracy, and how multimodal analytics can be applied to further verify a person’s identity, allowing you to reach as close to a theoretical 100% as possible.

Synopsis of the Evolution of Wireless Data: How Connected Cities Enhance Human Civilisation by Mustapha Saifuddin

Mass adoption of the Internet of Things will require cheaper devices, longer battery life and very low cost of connectivity. Low Powered Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have already begun altering the way a city talks to its inhabitants and networks with other cities, making them safer and more appealing. In this segment, the speaker will discuss basic fundamentals of LPWAN, its applications and key considerations, using Sigfox technology as an example

This session will discuss about how surveillance cameras had evolved as a part of IOT, transforming the way we work, thru AI and machine learning capabilities. With this evolution, how Dell EMC infrastructure become an integral part of the eco-system to provide the right architecture design to allow end user to ;

As IoT deployments expands from early experimentation to business scale, are network and cyber security ready? Can network handle the volume of data, variety of devices, and velocity of innovation? Does the network defend against an exponential increase in IoT threats? Juniper Networks enables organizations to connect, secure, and innovate IoT at scale. Anytime, anywhere, and everywhere.

3:45pm

Lucky Draw Session @ Ballroom A
Refreshment
Exhibition Booth

5:00pm

End of Event

Panel Topic moderated by IDC

As Malaysia’s new government set on her path to achieve a sustainable society that creates vitality in enterprises, industries, cities, and her people, there is huge anticipation for the government to leverage on post digital transformation (DX) world that would span across key focus industries such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare and public safety (airports, streets, and events).

Notably, these DX occurrences are expected to be led by cutting-edge technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), next-generation 5G networks, supercomputers, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

In order to attain these ideal socio-economic ecosystems for Malaysia, this panel seeks to discuss the key ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ should the country focus on in the coming years, in order to realise a well-balanced goal to ‘live, learn, work, and play’ for all Malaysians.

Speakers

Mr. Chong Kai Wooi

Steering the helm as the Managing Director of NEC Corporation of Malaysia, Chong Kai Wooi is responsible for the continuous growth of the company while incorporating fresh vision and direction that is align with the aspiration of NEC Corporation and NEC APAC. Chong believes in the world class technology and knowledge that NEC can provide to enable solutions for society.

Underpinning his responsibilities are the business operations, sales, profit and losses. Since he started his career in 1994, Chong has held key roles in sales management, account management, business development, consultancy and pre-sales activities.

He believes in the tremendous opportunities for NEC Malaysia and his priorities are:

Growing Carrier Business Beyond Microwave

- Transforming Enterprise and Public Sector’s go-to-market including public safety for growth which incorporates best practices from NEC Corporation Japan and NEC Asia Pacific Singapore.

- Growing and retaining talents and cultivate a high performance sales culture.

Having over 20 years of experience in sales and business specifically in the field of information and communication technology, Chong is equipped with a profound hands-on practice of effective business culture – he has the ability to work in a wide diversified environment with people of various backgrounds.

He is persistent in his engagement at various levels and has a proven track record of excellence in developing effective sales team and ensuring growth for the company.

He joined Hewlett Packard (M) Sdn Bhd in 2004 and later in 2013, he was the Head of Consulting for HPE South East Asia Taiwan & HK Network Consulting practices. In that regional role, he drove network transformation projects with large enterprise customers, providing effective services that were critical. He successfully managed and streamlined the customers’ business, which led to the attainment of competitive business advantage.

Mr. Christopher Holmes

Mr. Christopher Holmes Managing Director IDC Insights Asia Pacific

Chris Holmes is Managing Director for IDC Insights Asia/Pacific responsible for leading the Retail, Energy, Manufacturing, Health, Government, Telecommunications, and IT Spending groups. He is responsible for setting the direction of the research and managing the delivery teams. His research focuses on industry transformation, the application of new technologies to enhance business processes, and cross-industry learning.

Prior to joining IDC, Dr. Holmes worked at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). Here, he pioneered the use of technology road mapping across Singapore, working with start-ups to multinationals, to help companies match their business needs with technology. Before relocating to Singapore, he worked in the aerospace sector in the United Kingdom and focused on process efficiencies.

Dr. Fahmi Ngah

Dr. Fahmi Ngah
Managing Director
Smart Selangor Delivery Unit

Dr Fahmi holds a first class honours degree in engineering and a PhD in Aeronautics from Imperial College, London. He was a Perdana Scholarship holder and was also awarded the prestigious Tun Ismail Ali Award for the Best UK graduate from the British/Malaysian Society and the National Youth Award from the Malaysian Ministry of Youth and Sports.

He served the UK Defence Research Agency (now QinetiQ PLC) as a Senior Technology Consultant for Aerostructures and Computational Probabilistic Methods where he led several European aerospace research programmes on behalf of the UK Defence and Science Technology Laboratory. He later joined the UK corporate sector – namely British Energy and EDF Energy as a Front Office Senior Quant. His last position within the corporate sector was the Head of Commodity Trading and Structuring in CIMB Investment Bank Malaysia where he was in charge of managing commodity corporate clients for the bank in the ASEAN region.

He is now Managing Director for the Smart Selangor Delivery Unit which is the Selangor State entity mandated to plan and deliver initiatives under the Smart Selangor Smart State Programme.

Mr. Mervyn Cheah

Mr Mervyn Cheah is currently the Head and Vice President of NEC Laboratories Singapore (NLS). He was previously the Senior Research Director of NLS.
Prior to joining NEC APAC, Mr Cheah was serving ST Electronics as their CTO and also as their Head of R&D in software solutions. Mr Cheah served as the Track Chairman of the International Command and Control Research Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), an annual event sponsored by the US Department of Defense for 7 years (2008 to 2014). He was awarded the Best Research Paper (the Gary Wheatley Award) in 2008 together with his teammates.

To date, Mr Cheah is an author of 13 publications. Mr Cheah was also a member of the NATO Scientific Team that won the prestigious NATO Scientific award in September 2014 for inventing new methods of Command and Control in Civil-Military operations. In the earlier years, Mr Cheah was a senior officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) where he has represented the SAF in military relations with the US, Sweden and Australia.

Mr Cheah was invited to speak at many international forums hosted by other military dignitaries. Mr Cheah was also the Head of the SAF Centre for Military Experimentation from 2003 to 2008. During his tenure, he was awarded the coveted Defence Technology Prize for his invention of a new generation of Command and Control system called as MissionMate in 2005. This system was further allowed to be exported to S

Mr Cheah currently sits on the Industry Advisory Board for Singapore Institute of Technology and Glasgow University. Mr Cheah is also a volunteer Mentor for the University of Western Australia new student graduates. He holds a Master of Science in Defence Electronics from Cranfield University, as well as First Class Honours in Computer Science from the University of Western Australia.

Mr Cheah is currently steering NLS to create more new innovative solutions using NEC’s data analytics platform for smart cities by working closely with other NEC Laboratories, NEC Business Units and Country Affiliates, Government agencies, Industries, Universities and start-ups. NLS has worked closely with Public Transport Operators in Singapore, Ministry of Home Affairs, Surat City Police in India, Wellington City in New Zealand, Hospitals in Singapore in co-creating new innovative solutions towards safer and smarter city living.

Mr. Walter Lee

Walter Lee is the Evangelist and Government Relations Leader at NEC Corporation. He provides leadership in advocacy and strategic partnerships with government agencies across the world for co-creation of innovative solutions for smart and safer cities. He represents NEC at various UN Development Programme workshops and ASEAN technology forums. He was the CEO of the e-Cop Group of Companies, Senior Vice President at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore and Vice-President/Head of Consulting at IDC Consulting Asia Pacific and member of the IDC Worldwide Consulting Management Board. He was engaged as a consultant to OECD to conduct studies of innovation networks in various countries. Walter was the Vice-President and Head of E-Commerce for the SIA Group.

Mr. Christopher Lam

Christopher is currently the Senior Research Director of NEC Laboratories Singapore (NLS), a Value Co-Creation Laboratory of NEC based in Singapore. In NLS, he is deputy to the Head and at the same time heads the Experimentation Unit and is the deputy Head of the Technology Unit where he leads in many customer engagements, a key designer/influencer in many of the new solutions, e.g. Smart Command Centre, and is one of the key presenters in many important events.

Prior to joining NLS as the Research Director in May 2015, Christopher had assumed several roles in various organizations such as Senior E-Commerce Manager in Avnet Electronics Marketing, Technical Director in the Technology Office of ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems), Senior Java Delivery Architect in the Professional Delivery Services of Sun Microsystems, founder of a start-up company, Webio Technologies, and a few others. Webio Technologies was started by him where he had developed web-based solutions for Seafood Trading (iSeafoodXchange) and Survey Management.

Graduated from Monash University in Australia with a Degree in Computing, Christopher has been a software developer cum architect with over 24 years of solid experience in designing and solving enterprise problems using ICT. Over the years, he possessed the track records in designing, developing and implementing software solutions from small (desktop Windows applications) to large scale multi-tiered distributed systems handling millions of transactions daily. His knowledge is also supported with many professional certifications that he has obtained over the years in the areas of technologies, tools and middleware products, e.g. Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, Sun Certified Java Developer, IBM SOA Solution Designer, etc.

Christopher’s passion for creating great software started way back during his school days in Ngee Ann Polytechnic where he developed a game similar to the classic arcade game, Space Invader for his C Programming assignment in 1988, when the expectation was Tic-Tac-Toe and Hangman type of games.

Christopher likes to use diagrams and never failed to create good diagrams to illustrate his points and ideas. Having such diagrams always helped him to convey the intended messages across to his audience effectively.

Like all Singaporean men, Christopher has also fulfilled his National Service as a Platoon Commander with a Captain rank in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) with the Singapore Armed Forces.

Mr. Mustapha Saifuddin

Mustapha is a business leader with more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications, hardware and ICT industries. He specialises in digital transformation and bridging technologies and cultures across Asia Pacific, taking on regional roles in multinational organisations, including NEC. These days, he is actively involved in evangelising IoT technology, namely Sigfox, within Malaysian business circles.

Mr. Raymond Koh

Mr. Raymond Koh Regional Development Manager for VSS & IoT
Dell EMC

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Raymond Koh is the Regional Sales Manager and he has served Dell EMC for 3.5years looking after SEA for video Security & Surveillance. Prior to Dell EMC, Raymond was the Vietnam and Philippines Country Manager for AXIS Communication. He has 9 years’ experience in the physical security industry and involved in many key surveillance projects for the different government entities in SEA region.

Mr. Nitin Vig

Mr. Nitin Vig, Service Provider Architect, APAC
Juniper

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Nitin is an Architect at Juniper Networks with 19 years of industry experience. He works closely with Service Providers and Enterprises in the APAC region in areas of Fixed and Mobile broadband, Security, SDN/NFV Architecture and Next-generation Core networks. His areas of interest include DevOps, Automation and Machine learning.

He holds a Graduate degree in Electronics from University of Mumbai and an MBA in Information Systems.